“No-one likes us, we don’t care. By which we mean we do care, as you can see from the very angry tweets we typed on Sunday” – popular folk song

The concept of ‘Yer Da’ has always been fairly abstract, but it’s basically Twitterspeak for any embarrassing behaviour or language that you would readily associate with middle-aged men. This can take many forms.

Some choose to express the Da in them by tweeting ‘u look good hunni my wife hates me’ at Sky Sports News presenters half their age. Others go down the road of launching petitions to have Match of the Day hosts sacked from their jobs for the crime of having expressed empathy towards other human beings. These are but two of thousands of ideas from the Yer Da playbook.

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For Terry Butcher, Sunday’s Old Firm (or ‘O*d F**m’ if you follow play #247 from the Yer Da playbook) derby was the perfect opportunity to announce his candidacy for President of the Yer Da society, and boy did he grasp that opportunity.

“Clint Hill? More like Benny Hill!” was Butcher’s crowning glory, ticking off as it did a number of key Yer Da traits. First off, the “Thing 1? More like thing 2!” structure. Secondly, it hinged on a reference about 40 years out of date. Finally, it made everyone who heard it groan and contemplate the meaningless of life.

"There'll be no Christmas cards from the Hampden groundsman for you Chris," said Butcher, but I’m not sure Ally McCoist would have been sending him a card in the first place.

Butcher was joined by Chris Sutton, who, in a departure from his usual style, managed to upset some people. Even the groundsman wasn’t spared his ire, with Sutton making a disparaging statement about the Hampden turf.

Following their midweek exertions against German opponents, Celtic took on Rangers…Sevco…a Scottish team. Thousands of Celtic fans set off to watch Rangers at Hampden, in a change to their usual routine of watching Rangers on their laptops. The Ibrox side made four changes from the Caley Thistle match. Out went Wes Foderingham, Niko Kranjcar, Martyn Waghorn and cohesion.

Fans were excited as they caught their first glimpse of the teams, and the sight of Leigh Griffiths on a Hampden bench gave Gordon Strachan a formidable megastauner. When Griffiths eventually entered the fray, the Scotland boss was so enraged he fell off his high chair.

As Erik Sviatchenko saw his goal disallowed, Celtic fans responded in the time-honoured tradition by sarcastically exclaiming “Honest mistake”. Their wives responded by staring at their wedding rings and muttering “Aye, you don’t have to tell me about honest mistakes."

As 94.3 per cent of commentators say following eventful first halves, there was “plenty for the lads in the studio to sink their teeth into at half time”. The lads in this case were Stuart McCall and John ‘Why use one word when half a word will do?’ Hartson. It was a half in which three of the main talking points were dives. Specifically, Barrie McKay, Moussa Dembele and Hampden.

“I moved to Scotland to play a part in big occasions like this,” said Joey Barton on Sunday afternoon, as he booked a lane at Hollywood Bowl. The frustration was palpable for Britain’s foremost author, philosopher and occasional footballer, who signed on at Ibrox with big games in mind but has now failed to feature in either of this season’s Old Firm encounters.

Impressive, committed performances from Clint Hill and Matt Gilks were perhaps the only positives for the Rangers support. Gilks raised eyebrows by telling a reporter that Rangers “outplayed Celtic at times”. Fans were indeed stunned to see Celtic snatch a late winner, as leaving aside their 24 shots, 58 per cent of possession and 8-1 corner ratio the goal came completely against the run of play.